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When boys affected with steroid sulfatase deficiency are delivered, the lack of the enzyme in the placenta may cause birth complications. In postnatal life this gene defect gives rise to X-linked recessive ichthyosis. In a series of 25 patients birth complications were reported in 9 cases. Of these boys, 4 displayed bilateral inguinal cryptorchidism and one was affected unilaterally. In a further boy we obsered unilateral inguinal cryptorchidism without a history of birth complications. In one patient who had been delivered by forceps, abdominal bilateral cryptorchidism resulted in severe hypogenitalism. A review of the literature revealed 30 cases with X-linked recessive ichthyosis displaying hypogenitalism or crytorchidism or both. In conclusion, cryptorchidism should be considered as a further clinical manifestation of steroid sulfatase deficiency.
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Traupe, H., Happle, R. Clinical spectrum of steroid sulfatase deficiency: X-linked recessive ichthyosis, birth complications and cryptorchidism. Eur J Pediatr 140, 19–21 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00661898
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